Handout

Creating Wikis

It's easy and free to create your own wiki on any topic. Use to:

1. 1. Create websites

2. Publish policies and procedures
3. Publish slideshows and photos
4. Publicize special events
5. Collaborate with teachers to provide resources
7. Communicate with parents
8. Collaborate with other teachers
9. Share ideas and resources with colleagues
10. Post information on a topic, edit, or add to existing information
11. Post reading questions
12. Post trivia questions
13. Publish information as a follow-up to instruction
14. Provide a forum for students to comment on books or new titles
15. Post assignments and collect student work
16. Collaborate with teachers to brainstorm units or ideas
17. Create collaborative online glossaries, dictionaries, subject or unit specific resources
18. Publicize resources for home use
19. Plan and provide an online meeting place
20. Link to or embed videos, slideshows, trailers, websites for classwork or extension
21. Set up class projects
22.Provide guidelines and rubrics
23. Serve as an electronic handout for classes and workshops (no repeating those dreaded long URLs)
24. Enhance class discussions
25. Provide annotated lists, links, resources
26. Provide a "launch pad" for student work on a topic; link to each student's project or report
27. Make student work public
28. Provide an interactive classroom calendar for the school community with Google Calendar
29. Collaborate on an article or manual
30. Collaboratively plan a conference or event
31. Create a page of frequently ordered items with details and links to online catalogs
32. Launch surveys and opinion polls
33. Provide a page of frequently asked questions (FAQs)
34. Launch slideshows and presentations from classes, students, teachers
35. Create pages for parents
36. Publish annual report of activities for the classroom
37. Teach students about wikis, web publishing, page design, etc.
38. Create templates for projects and reports - individual and/or group












The Discussion Tab can be used in several different ways. I've listed a few, but I'm sure you can think of many other creative ideas.

Ideas:
1. Have students ask questions about content.
2. Post links to homework or additional material and websites for projects.
3. Class discussions where each student has to respond to a discussion question.
4. Post their opinions on different science issues.
5. Have students give tips and suggestions to future students.
6. Post questions about the lab or assignments, where other students could respond.

Click here to see a video that shows you how to create a class list of emails and passwords for your students. This option allows you to avoid them using personal emails. You also have their passwords and have a bit more control.

See Wikispaces Beyond the Ground Up

for even more great things and cool tricks you can

do with your new Wikispace.